The title of Donna Tartt’s latest best-selling novel comes from a painting of a small bird by Carel Fabritius that hangs in the Mauritshuis in The Hague. A student of Rembrandt’s and an influence on ...
Jonah Siegel
Jonah Siegel is a professor of English at Rutgers University. He is the author of Desire and Excess: The Nineteenth-Century Culture of Art and Haunted Museum: Longing, Travel, and the Art-Romance Tradition. He is at work on a study of the place of the material in modern concepts of the aesthetic and another on the fate of art objects in the Napoleonic period. 